This collection should be mandatory reading for everybody, now and forever.

It boggles my mind that some still admire Bush. Oh yes: He is a born-again Christian and opposes abortion.

Dealin' and copin'

With all the post Bush debris

Should keeps folks busy

For at least another century....

It's the kind of thing that is so horrible you almost just want to bury your head into the sand.

So in order to cheer me I read a fine selection of Bushisms.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7809160.stm

You can't really blame Bush for 9/11 but you can blame him for what happened afterwards.

Something like 9/11 had been brewing for many years before Bush. America - under various presidents, including Clinton - had not exactly covered itself in glory with its foreign policy, particularly towards the Arab world (Israel/Palestine). These policies acted as a recruiting sergeant for Islamic jihadists and it was inevitable that, one day, they were going to get through.

And I think Karen Greenberg is right when she talks about the damage done to America's image because of Guantanamo/Abu Ghraib/torture. This damage cannot simply be undone, even if Guantanamo closed tomorrow.

It was chilling to see an advanced democracy like the US regressing to a less civilized time where torture was permissible. This is the wrong direction to be going in.

Obama must correct this but, as Greenberg says, something nasty's been let out of the box that you can't easily stuff back in again.

Bush's assent to power didn't have to mean the ruin of America, but it has and did. Nothing Bush has done since 9/11 has helped America become safer. Instead, b/c of our disgusting desire to torture and welcome all the abuses we ascribe to Third World dictatorships (illegal domestic spying, torture, denying people habeaus corpus, environmental degradation, millions without healthcare, rampant religious fundamentalism, etc., etc., etc.), this country has lost its standing in the world as a beacon of freedom and democracy, which is horrifically ironic given what W. has preached continuously for the last 8 years.

It's disgusting and America stinks because of what Bush, Cheney and the neo-cons did to this country. I'd almost rather live in Somalia than in America considering the above.

...the oldest trick in the book. Have a scapegoat (especially one who appears as stupid as one) take the fall for the stripping of the assets of America Inc; They planned the crime of the century and have executed it to the final details, including the start of Armageddon in the mideast. Bush is just a puppet and the men with their hands up his arse are Wolfowitz, Cheney and Rumsfeld et al. Look up Project for the New American Century(PNAC) and you will see a basic blueprint for a plan hatched years ago and almost completed. However the details are far more sinister than we have been shown. A New World Order has been set up and the fear engenderd by America on the rest of the world is the real terror extant. Difference between Bush and Clinton was their approach to the schedule. Clinton was just too laid back for the good 'ol boys of the Texas mafia and subsequently got gobbled up by the Monica Lewinski thingy. After that it has been all steam ahead for the NWO with guset appearances by the CIAs favorite boy Osama bin Hiding and his cast of exploding thousands.

Anyway with the worldwide surveillance state the US has set up we're all f*#$*ed now! Asta la vista baby!

Polls in December show that Bush's approval rating ranges from 24-30 percent. http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

Ergo, about 1/4 to 1/3 of the country think Bush was a good President. It's dismaying to know that a significant percentage of the country is so backwards, and they act as an obstacle to our nation's progress.

Can we disenfranchise these nitwits?

As sickened as I am over the past eight years, there is plenty of blame to be shared from corporate America exporting jobs and driving down the standard of living for millions of workers in this country, to an American public who has cared less about what goes on beyond their own yard, and a certain level of denial that has gone on throughout the entire country.

On a number of levels, even amongst the progressives, the left.

I seem to remember a certain segment of the electorate in 2000 who were willing to elect Bush by voting for Nader because as was said at the time, "it needs to get real bad in order to improve," or some sim. crap. Privaledged Whites with college educations, income, and so forth who failed to look beyond their own self interest. I wd. wager that those who have suffered the most in this country over the past eight years were not those who defeated Gore by voting for Nader.

On a certain level, these folks are as bad if not worse that the R party and the hard right-as single visioned. A collective self interest by this countries population help drive this train wreck. However, contrary to what some might believe and say-this country and people are bigger than the current bunch heading towards their big houses and nice salaries in a few weeks.

However, in your list of "expenses"-many need to be thankful for Sgts and their families at a hundred and seventy a week doing jobs and work most in this country have no understanding. Iraq or not, Sgts and their families need to get paid.

I hope the "Green"/Nader folks are happy with pissing their vote down the toilet and electing Bush. It needs to be remembered the role these folks played in putting Bush into office. I find no humor in this fact but the Nader crew from 2000 can form a single line and kiss my ass.

Cheney/bush, supported by a complicit Congress and media, have done irreparable harm to America. It's going to take at least 50 years under very honorable and effective leadership to pull this country out of the mess they created. The past 8 years, in my judgment, have been an absolute total waste.

In a word, their legacy; lousy. And the passing of time won't prove otherwise. In 8 years of Cheney/bush, the USA stood still, absolutely nothing was accomplished. When you stand still, you back up. Think of the things Cheney/bush failed at: they could not finish 2 wars against 3rd World opponents; they played Sergeant Schultz on illegal immigration; they allowed punks like the guy in North Korea, Chavez and the louse in Iran to spit defiantly in our face; they failed to monitor the economy; failed in the Katrina rescue; China is now rapidly gaining on the US, militarily; they did nothing to address our energy woes, in fact bush didn't even know we had deficiencies in energy; they doubled the national debt; did nothing on health care; AOL on environmental issues; worker's rights and pay has declined; they destroyed the US Constitution; their actions led to a Democratic sweep at the federal, state and local levels all across the Country; they allowed the Israeli/Palestinian matter to disintegrate; 9/11 happened on their watch; Russia has returned to become a powerful adversary; they came into power with a federal surplus, leaving Obama the worst US economy since the Great Depression; " no child left behind" like "mission accomplished" were slogans at best; the World hates our guts; our military has been over-stretched and vulnerable; but in fairness, the very rich have gotten allot richer. I don't see how this record says anything other than "lousy." Maybe disaster!